So what was that about it only selling a little over 30,000 during Janurary? Oh that was only in the UK? Okay gotcha! I'll do my homework next time!

These numbers are certainly not flop numbers, but they could be a lot better. I'm guessing after more games come out they should steadily pick up until Nintendo opts to drop the price some time either late this or next year, at which point it will sell more consistently like its competition.

Well, the numbers ARE pretty bad when you consider that the system launched with Nintendo Land (which was supposed to bring in the Wii Sports crowd) and Super Mario Bros U (which was supposed to bring in the 2d Mario crowd) and neither audiences really jumped on the WiiU. It pretty much confirms that Nintendo is losing the large audience they built on the Wii.

We'll have to see how the next Mario Kart does, which was a massive seller on the Wii. But since neither 2d Mario nor "WiiU Sports" (Nintendo Land) are bringing in "teh casualz", WiiU is going to have a rocky future.

I believe the PS4 and Xbox720 will also have a rocky start and trail their predecessors. The worldwide economy has plummeted over the last few years. I think the Wii U has done fine all things considered. I don't think games are on peoples priority list when it comes to finances. I'm lucky enough to be financially sound, so I plan on buying all three, but I'm the minority. A lot of parents aren't going crack out $400-$500 so little Timmy can play his video games; whether for a Wii U or a PS4. Life was different 5-6 years ago; anybody who disagrees is too young to be in the work force.

You're right, I mean how many times can you play Mario over and over and over and over and over again. The gameplay is good, not that engaging though that the game won't start to feel stale and boring, which it has in my opinion.

I'm annoyed because the headline of said article did no such thing and just about everyone seemed to take it as such despite the fact that the Wii U has not had so much as a solid week in the UK (as oppose to US and Japan) since launch.

Why is this even news... this is the norm for all new consoles in their early life cycle. N4G sure looking for any and everything that looks negative to bath the Nintendo company with... whats next....

I'd say it's pretty bad considering it has no competition at all in it's gen at the moment, other than Ouya. What's going to happen once PS4/NextBox come into the mix? I'm still hoping they can turn things around, I was thinking of maybe looking for one.

I'd say Trine 2: Director's Cut. Yes, it's downloadable, and yes, it's also on the other consoles (as well as PC), but it's the best looking console version, and has more content on it that isn't present on Xbox 360 or PS3 (according to Frozenbite, the game devs, it was because they couldn't put said content on the other HD consoles without compromising the graphics).

Now, speaking strictly about exclusives, there's nothing noteworthy on Wii U in the graphics department. Mario Bros U and Nintendoland look nice, of course, but nothing to write home about.

I am actually afraid on how well the new Xbox and ps are going to do. The economy is still in bad shape and unless you are a gamer already, other people won't jump on buying new consoles. The wii u is 350 at most and people won't pay that, and it's not because people say its weak because only people that are into games read into stuff like that. I think for the most part as of right now most people can't justified paying that much for a system when they can barely pay rent. So when the ps and Xbox come out for at least 400 how are they really going to fare. I really hope they sell well

Thanks for those sale numbers I was kinda wondering what the others were like early on. As I've seen comments saying it's doing well and comments saying it's doing poor, didn't really believe either side as I had nothing to base it on.

Do you have links to those numbers? You can pm me since you don't have bubbles

The wii U sold 3 million units worldwide in it's first 3 months, both the xbox360 and the ps3 sold about 1.8 million units worldwide (1.8 for the xbox360 and 1,76 for the ps3), how is this bad, I seriously don't understand.

Thanks I'm trying to open the link now but my cell doesn't seem to like the page, I'll try again later. I know before, I was going to say it is doing bad or good, I wanted some numbers to look at. Another link I have from neogaf shows only USA numbers but I don't think it's doing bad, it had a great start from what the numbers show but since then the monthly numbers are slightly higher than the ps3s. So I'm not sure of all the doom and gloom

You're welcome, it is a really nice "take" on how the wii U is doing, the guy even went as far as to compare the reviews from the launch line up to other launch line ups to show it wasn't as good as it looked in the beginning.

well vita has only one contender in the handled market, and yes its a really good one and all, but Wii U has 2 about to come, and 4 counting ouya and steam console... so, yeah i would be more worried by Wii U # not saying that vita will do fine, vita is in trouble atm, im a sony fan and i can admit that, and for now Wii U is too, ofc things can change, time will tell

thezeldadoth: tell more about those awesome exclusives? like mmm mario this, mario that, mario those, mario there, mario here? lol im sry i played those games when i was 10 or so in my nes/super nes... now i play games that dont include mario in their names.. :/ And btw, where u were this last years, since i saw like so many great games for ps3 and x-box, yet nintendo had, mario, zelda, more mario, metroid, more mario, pokemon and more mario.. yeah with those supper graphics and osm controller from wii.. blind fanboys.. yeah you describe yourself. go play your outdated games, with outdated hardware, ill play real gaems =)

i'm glad you assumed i haven't played ps3 and 360. i own both actually as well as a gaming PC. yes i played your precious exclusives, half of them overrated with the exception of MGS4 and uncharted 2. i'm glad you see a game with the name mario in it and ignore it, you're missing out on a lot of fun games. as far as outdated hardware, your ps4 and 720 are already outdated in comparison to my PC so whats the big deal.

Well i have a pc capable of running bf3 with all in ultra... so, i dont know whats your point, i can tell u that nintendo games are overrated, and yes i played them, i had a wii in my house, a friend bough one and left it in my house after 1 month, played mario, played metroid, played wii sports, and a few others, after 2 days was supper bored of em, only game that i found fun was star wars game, fun no? not a nintendo overrated game, a third party game.. so before saying something about me, like u said about u, first ask if i played nintendo games or not ;)

People expecting Super and over the top sales for the next xbox and PS4,just forget ABOUT IT,the pace is going to end up being the same has the Wii U.Economy cant reach more, LIKE 7 YEAR AGO,all new systems are going to sell at slow pace along with the games releases.Thats the reason that the company that ends showing the better and more exclusive game experiencies will win next gen.

Another lil kid fanatic with a lame Nintendo character s his profile name lol Yeah Sony fans will get their pressure high as Sony releases new and great ips in the 90S metacritic ratings like Uncharted, Lbp, and others. While others regurgitate and dint innovate in hrdware. Next up Tlou and Puppeteer lol Go Sony gooooooo boom

I think they f'd up. They were supposed to release this with tons of EXCLUSIVE games that would sell the system. Instead, its only offering slightly upgraded versions of multiplats and very few exlusive games (of which are meh)

E3 is approaching and by then, the Next Box and whatever Sony is plaaning will come out and completely outshadow the Wii U. The Wii U as of yet hasn't sold much and its unlikely that sales will spike after the other consoles come out with their upgraded tech and fancy graphics. I can already see the next Xbox having a Call of duty game demoed with upgraded graphics at E3 and Sony with Killzone 4 and whatever Media Molecule is cooking up

lol...and why not...xbox and ps3 are selling for dirt cheap....haters are trying to create made up problems for wiiu , point is its almost at 4 million with no games....when you have 3 dirt cheap alternatives if you include the wii in the meantime...when sony and microsoft come out with their expensive systems that offers nothing and wiiu games start hitting the system then we can talk....isnt wiiu sales still ahead of the vita...then we're good